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16 May your servants see your work.[a]
May their sons see your majesty.[b]
17 May our Sovereign God extend his favor to us.[c]
Make our endeavors successful.
Yes, make them successful.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 90:16 tn Heb “may your work be revealed to your servants.” In this context (note v. 17) the verb form יֵרָאֶה (yeraʾeh) is best understood as an unshortened jussive (see Gen 1:9; Isa 47:3).
  2. Psalm 90:16 tn Heb “and your majesty to their sons.” The verb “be revealed” is understood by ellipsis in the second line.
  3. Psalm 90:17 tn Heb “and may the delight of the Master, our God, be on us.” The Hebrew term נֹעַם (noʿam, “delight”) is used in Ps 27:4 of the Lord’s “beauty,” but here it seems to refer to his favor (see BDB 653 s.v.) or kindness (HALOT 706 s.v.).
  4. Psalm 90:17 tn Heb “and the work of our hands establish over us, and the work of our hands, establish it.”

16 May your deeds be shown to your servants,
    your splendor to their children.(A)

17 May the favor[a] of the Lord our God rest on us;
    establish the work of our hands for us—
    yes, establish the work of our hands.(B)

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  1. Psalm 90:17 Or beauty